The Struggle Of Two Workers In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

In chapter 5, the event which occurs is Lennie kills Curley’s Wife and Curley decides to hunt for Lennie and kill him. Lennie is in the barn and Curley’s wife then joins trying to talk to Lennie. She’s always complaining about how lonely she is and asks why Lennie can’t talk to her. Lennie obedient to George replies with “George says I ain’t to have nothing to do with you-talk to you or nothing.” Every time Curley’s wife tries to speak to Lennie, he will always be loyal to George, and his big mouth leads him to say the exact words which George says, sometimes what he shouldn’t say. She complains about how she can’t talk to anybody “You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody?” Here she explains that if she talks to anyone, her one person

Part of Lennie’s character is being uneducated, and slow. Lennie is always forgetting important information. “Lenny looked timidly over to him.” “George?” Yeah, what ya want?” “Where we goin’, George?” “The little man jerked down the brim of his hat and scowled over at Lennie.” “So you forgot that awready, did you?” “I gotta tell you again do I? “Jesus Christ you’re a crazy bastard!” “I forgot,” Lennie said softly.(Page 4 of Mice and Men). As you can see this conversation of quotes proves many different points. First, it shows Lennie forgetting where him and George were

George and Lennie are two central characters in John Steinbeck's novel, "Of Mice and Men. " They both share a dream of owning a piece of land and living off the fat of the land. However, on closer inspection, it becomes evident that they are also different in many ways. This essay will compare and contrast George and Lennie, highlighting their similarities and central differences, as well as discussing what each gains from the other. And, it will explore the reasons behind Lennie's death and why George is the one who must carry out his death.

George is constantly having to remind him of certain things, like what happened in weed, when Lennie wouldn’t let go of the girls dress and he lost them their jobs or to tell him when he shouldn’t speak solely because he’s afraid Lennie will say something wrong and put their jobs at jeopardy again. George does all the work for Lennie, which only makes him look incompetent. Lennie is often picked on because due to his disability, when Curley instigated a fight with him he was defenseless and just stood there as he got beat. He cried helplessly “Make ‘um stop, George.”, When it finally hit Lennie to defend himself he grabbed Curley’s hand and didn’t let go till he broke it. The author does the most to convey Lennie as one who has no control over what they do and is clueless most of the time. Crooks

From the start of the book it seemed like Lennie had trouble controlling his actions he had to touch everything like a child and had trouble comprehending things. An example of this is when they were in Weed and Lennie touched the girls red dress and wouldn’t let go and the girl took it the wrong way and called for the authorities. As they are speaking about the incident George says, “Oh so ya forgot that too, did ya? Well I, ain’t gonna remind ya, fear ya do it again” (Steinbeck 7). George’s response shows that he is afraid that if he even speaks of the incident Lennie might do it again.

They also show how George reminds him and explains how it’s why he can’t do something now, like with the mice. Steinbeck showed us very early on that Lennie forgets things easier then most, and how he doesn’t really grasp onto why he can’t do something. Which really justifies in George shooting Lennie, because what if Lennie forgets again and kills someone else on accident? It was the best solution for George, one eventually needs to stop

This shows that he has the mind of a child, he doesn’t think about the real consequences, he thinks about how he won’t be able to tend the rabbits. On page 87 he says, “George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits now.” He killed the puppy, and the first thing he thinks about is how he won’t be able to tend the rabbits. Another thing Lennie says that refers to the rabbits, on page 91 is, “He ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits.” When Curley’s wife starts screaming, Lennie just thinks about George, and how he won’t let him tend the rabbits.

“Of Mice and Men” is a novella written by John Steinbeck, and it was first published in 1937. The protagonists are George and Lennie. They are ranch hands trying to save a sufficient amount of money to purchase their dream farm. George is short tempered, but he is devoted and caring for Lennie and incredibly dedicated to their friendship. Lennie is large, clumsy and extremely dependent on George; showing characteristics similar to a child. However, Lennie is extremely strong. Throughout the story, George helps Lennie get out of trouble; hence, increasing Lennie’s debt to George. Eventually, Lennie had to pay the debt he owed George; thus, establishing the depressing ending. Therefore, Steinbeck utilizes foreshadowing successfully throughout the story to ultimately create a tragic outcome.

Robert Burn’s line “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry” applies to George and Lennie in many ways. There are many examples of how their goals and dreams starts without troubles, but goes to the wrong direction and worse, comes to the point where they, although mainly George, realizes that his and Lennie’s dreams and goals are gone and impossible achieve.

This essay is about the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The book “Of Mice and Men” is about two guys named George and Lennie who go to ranches for jobs. They got kicked out of their original job so now they are in a new ranch where they meet problems, but trying to achieve their goal to own a little house.Lennie is a person who is not very smart and childlike but is very sympathetic because he doesn’t like hurting people and he cares about other people.

In Steinbeck’s novel, the majority of the story takes place on reasonably large ranch run by a number of low-paid workers. On the ranch there are three main buildings: a barn, the bunkhouse, and the house where the owner of the land lives. The workers lived in the bunkhouse, and the black man lived in the barn. This was a very accurate description of what life would be like because racism was still prominent during this time.

To become successful you must overcome to obstacles, and continue to work hard even when giving up seems to be an easier solution. Lennie and George are two migrant workers who dream of owning a ranch some day. They are now going to go work at a new ranch in Soledad,California. Escaping from the weed, thanks to Lennie’s childlike behavior for soft items. Hoping this time George and Lennie will get enough money to buy a ranch. John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men effectively uses the literary devices of conflict,foreshadowing and symbolism in an attempt to reveal how some dreams that will not come true,no matter how much hard work and effort is put into it and is easier if you just give up.

His mental disability had caused the dream they had created to be ruined. Curley, the man on the ranch who picks on Lennie, currently has a wife that is very isolated and lonely and loves to talk to Lennie since he is a very warm and soft loving man until she had told Lennie to feel her hair. Lennie wouldn't let go and Curley's wife was struggling to get out of Lennie's grasp. "And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck" (Steinbeck 91). This quotation explains how Lennie had ruined the dream because he had killed a woman and would be expelled from working on the ranch, leading to not making any money towards their life dream. Since George knew the dream was over, and that it wouldn't happen, he had to find Lennie. Since Curley had picked on him and had made fun of him, Curley was already after Lennie to kill. George knew this was all happening and knew he had to find Lennie before them to tell him the dream one more time before he was going to die. George had found Lennie on the creek side in the forest and told him about their dream one more time. Then George had Lennie at gunpoint. "His hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger” (Steinbeck 106). This quote from Of Mice and Men explains to the reader that Lennie had ruined their dreams once and for all since he had done terrible things to halt the dream. George had to put Lennie out of his misery since he was already going to be killed. George wanted to share their dream together one more

John Steinbeck’s novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ portrays life of two migrant workers George Milton and Lennie Small in the areas of Salinas, California. In this novella George is shown as a noble, heroic character.

The parallels between Lennie and George’s relationship and the relationship that their workmate, Candy had with his dog reaffirm the power dynamic between George and Lennie. In the novella, Candy must kill his dog because it is old and weak. Candy felt such extreme regret when it came time to kill his dog, that instead of doing